1. The first Noel the angel did say
was to certain poor shepherds in
fields as they lay;
in fields as they lay, keeping their
sheep,
on a cold winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s night that was so
deep.
Refrain:
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
born is the King of Israel.
2. They looked up and saw a star
shining in the east beyond them far,
and to the earth it gave great light,
and so it continued both day and
night. Refrain
3. Then let us all with one accord
sing praises to our heavenly Lord;
that hath made heaven and earth of
nought,
and with his blood mankind hath
bought. Refrain

Silent Night Franz Gruber
Audience join on all three verses.

Joy to the World arr. John Rutter
Audience join on verses 1, 2, and 4;
choir only verse 3

1. Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
let every heart prepare him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing.
2. Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let all their songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills,
and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy.
3. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
he comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found.
4. He rules the world with truth and
grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love.

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The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt
University, Chicago.
The Auditorium Theatre is the crowning achievement
of famed architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
It opened in 1889 and its architectural integrity and
perfect acoustics are internationally recognized.
Photo by James Steinkamp
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Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh,
O’er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring,
Making spirits bright;
What fun it is laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
Remember, Christ, our Savior
Was born on Christmas day,
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray:
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.

Refrain:
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way;
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh! (repeat)

Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gath’ring winter fuel.
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King,
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
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BIOGR APHIES
Steven Betancourt is the Director of
Music for Madonna della Strada Chapel
and University Organist at Loyola
University Chicago. He also teaches
applied organ and directs the Schola
Cantorum in the Department of Fine
and Performing Arts. Additionally, he is
a member of the auxiliary music staff of
the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for
Divine Worship and a consultant to The
American Federation Pueri Cantores.
Previously, Mr. Betancourt was the
Director of Music Ministries and Organist
at Immaculate Conception Church on
Chicago’s northwest side. There, he led a
vibrant program of four singing choirs,
two ringing choirs, a contemporary
ensemble, and troupe of liturgical dancers.
Mr. Betancourt earned his B.A. in music
education from Whittier College in
California studying with Dr. Frances
Nobert and David McVey. His M.M.
from Indiana University-Bloomington
was a double-major program in organ
performance and church music. His
teachers at Indiana included Drs. Larry
Smith, Carla Edwards and Marilyn Keiser.
Scott Burns is the director of the Loyola
University Chicago Jazz Band and
instructor of Applied Jazz Saxophone.
Mr. Burns earned his Bachelor of Music
degree in Jazz and Studio Music from the
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, graduating at the top of his
class. After gaining varied professional
performing and teaching experience
both regionally and internationally, he
relocated to Chicago to attend DePaul
University, where he earned his Master
of Music degree in Jazz Studies. While
playing with DePaul’s award-winning
jazz ensemble, Scott was a prominently
featured soloist alongside legendary jazz
performers Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner,
Louis Bellson, and Tom Harrell, and
received an outstanding soloist award
from Down Beat magazine in 1999.
As an established member of the Chicago
jazz scene, Mr. Burns frequently shares
the stage as a leader and sideman with
the area’s finest jazz musicians. His wideranging performing credits include select
dates with popular singer/pianist Harry
Connick Jr., national tours with the Mighty
Blue Kings, and performances with the
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and Chicago
Jazz Orchestra. He has played at the JVC,
Newport, and Chicago Jazz Fests and Sym-

phony Center, among many other festivals
and venues, and has appeared with international jazz artists McCoy Tyner, David
Hazeltine, Ira Sullivan, and Ahmad Jamal.
Scott’s debut CD as a leader, Passages,
was released on Origin Records to critical
acclaim and features his original compositions. He can currently be heard performing in Chicago and the Midwest region.
Mr. Burns has been a guest soloist and clinician at the University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois, Bowling Green University,
and Bloomington North High School (IN).
He has also taught at Columbia College,
the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and
the Northwestern University High School
Music Institute summer program, as well
as maintaining a private teaching studio.
Kirsten Hedegaard has enjoyed a duel
career as a singer and conductor, hailed
as “one of the most dynamic musicians
of her generation”. As a soprano soloist,
she has been praised for her voice that
“blends beautifully” (Chicago Tribune) and
“soars perfectly in the upper registers”
(Barrington Quintessential). She has
performed numerous Bach cantatas
and baroque chamber music and has
been a soloist with many early music
specialists including Nicholas McGegan,
Paul Hillier, Ivars Taurins, Kenneth Slowik,
and John Butt. Ms. Hedegaard has sung
with Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque,
the Newberry Consort, Ars Antiqua, the
Opera Company and Bella Voce, among
other ensembles. Also interested in
contemporary music, Ms. Hedegaard
has premiered several new works and
was engaged as soprano soloist for an
international tour of Louis Andriessens’s
The Odyssey, with performances
throughout the U.S. and the Netherlands.
Currently on faculty at Loyola University
Chicago, Ms. Hedegaard has taught
conducting at Concordia University, River
Forest and has conducted choirs and
orchestras for various institutions including
Eastman House, Chicago Children’s Choir,
Gallery 37, Loyola Academy, and the
University of California. She was guest
conductor with Chicago Choral Artists
for the 2009-10 season and is the former
conductor for the Bella Voce Outreach
program. In 2000, she co-founded The
Musical Offering, a nonprofit music school
in Evanston where she held the position
of Executive Director until 2005. She also
holds the position of Director of Music at
the Presbyterian Church of Barrington.
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B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .)

Ms. Hedegaard holds a B.M. from
Northwestern University and her M.A.
in conducting from the University of
California, where she was assistant to
Paul Hillier. In 2008, she was invited to be
a conducting fellow at the Yale Norfolk
Festival, studying with Simon Carrington.
Dr. Colin Holman maintains an active
professional career in Chicago where he
divides his energies between conducting
and musicology. Dr. Holman graduated
from the University of Birmingham, England and was awarded a Direct Exchange
Scholarship and a Graduate Honors Fellowship to complete his master’s degree
in orchestral conducting and his Ph.D. in
musicology from the University of Kansas,
where he was a conducting student of
George Lawner and Zuohuang Chen.
For two years Dr. Holman taught Japanese and American students at Teikyo
Westmar University before moving
to Chicago, where he has lectured at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Northwestern University,
Northern Illinois University, Wheaton
College, and North Park University.
Dr. Holman’s extensive conducting credits
include work in opera and musical theatre,
with orchestras and concert bands, and in
early music. Since moving to Chicago, he
has conducted many of the orchestras in
the area, including a tenure with the Fox
Valley Symphony Orchestra and guest
appointments with the Wheaton College
Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, the Harper Symphony
Orchestra, the West Suburban Symphony
Orchestra, and the Chicago Virtuosi. Dr.
Holman began his tenure as Orchestra
Director at Loyola University Chicago in
the fall of 2007 and is Founding Conductor
of the newly formed Fox Valley Orchestra.
Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J. is currently Director of Music and Associate Professor of
Music in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago.
Before coming to Loyola, he was on the
faculty at Creighton University in Omaha.
For several years he performed with Opera
Omaha and the Omaha Symphonic Chorus
as singer, soloist, and conductor. He has
given solo recitals in Holland, Italy, and
Germany, as well as in Omaha, Cambridge,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He has
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worked as a church musician and choral
director while pursuing his theological
studies at the Weston Jesuit School of
Theology and later at Loyola Marymount
University during his doctoral studies.
He continues to be active as a church
musician as well as devoting his time and
talents in the performance of early music,
focusing on the choral music of J. S. Bach,
Henry Purcell, Johann Valentin Rathgeber,
O.S.B., and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
He is also active as a scholar, writing
on Franz Schubert’s only psalm setting in Hebrew, Psalm 92, Tov lehodos,
and on the Magnificat settings of the
eighteenth-century German composer,
Johann Valentin Rathgeber. He has
presented and had papers published on
Schubert in the United States and on
Valentin Rathgeber during the First and
Second Rathgeber International Symposiums (2008 and 2010) in Germany.
Frederick Lowe conducts the Wind
Ensemble and also directs the basketball
pep band, the Band of Wolves. Mr. Lowe
earned his bachelor of music degree at
the University of Michigan, after which
he directed the concert, symphonic, and
marching bands and taught music theory
and electronic music composition as
Assistant Band Director at Lake Zurich (IL)
High School. Mr. Lowe has pursued graduate conducting studies at Northwestern
University, where he conducted the
Contemporary Music Ensemble, Concert
Band, Symphonic Band, Symphonic Wind
Ensemble, and also assisted with the
“Wildcat” Marching Band and the Men’s
Basketball Band. Mr. Lowe has served
as guest conductor with the Singapore
Festival Winds and the McHenry County
(IL) Youth Orchestras, he has judged
several music festivals in the Chicago area,
and he has served as a high school band
guest clinician. His music analyses are
published in the GIA Publications series
Teaching Music Through Performance in
Band, in both Volume VI and the recently
released second edition of Volume I.
Jeffrey Richards is the accompanist
for the University Chorus. He attended
Michigan State University, and for seven
years was the accompanist for the Chicago
Gay Men’s Chorus. He has accompanied
voice students for DePaul University and
Northwestern University, and for students of acclaimed soprano Catherine
Malfitano. He currently accompanies
students of the Chicago School of Professional Singing and serves as organist for
Bethlehem United Church of Christ in
Chicago and Temple Chai in Long Grove.

Loyola’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts aligns the creative energies of dance,
music, theatre and visual arts to provide quality arts education to students. This interdisciplinary collaboration, and the renovation of two arts facilities on the Lake Shore
Campus, has inspired a renaissance of the arts on campus. This year’s public programming includes over 70 innovative events engaging several art forms. For information
and events, visit LUC.edu/DFPA.
Box Office Contact Information
Phone: 773.508.3847
Email: BoxOffice@LUC.edu
Hours are from Noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday in Mundelein 1302,
and an hour before curtain on performance days.
Tickets can also be ordered online at LUC.tix.com.
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allowed in the theatre during performances and are a violation of state and federal
copyright laws. Tape or film will be confiscated.
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who will notify patrons in the event that they are paged, if it is necessary that they be
contacted during the performance.
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